The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-09-07

INSTRUMENTATION OLE 50
of this $+s,0l2 So, $41,OeO.O5 was for
ground squirrels and prairie dogs.
THUS IT IL SEEN
that the bounty paid ont for the first four
years after the Public Treasury was legis-
lated into this liability amounted TO $780,
OBJ 30; while for the first seven months
and twcnty.ilree days of this year the
amount is $IS S.Ol2.5j, anil of that amount
S4l ,o1OO5 is for squirrels and prairie dogs,
for which warrants were issued upon the
Treasury between the first of April and
the day of August inclusive.
| have procured from the Auditor n
tabulated statement, showing the proper
tion to each county in the Territory Of
these large gifts from the Public Treasury
and the same attached 10 and made a
part of this message. 1t is. due to yon
and your constituency that this subject
be presented, and its avarice for the peo-
pies money fully shown. Among the
estimated charges upon the public Trea-
sury for the year 1887, made out and re-
ported by the Auditor in his annual re-
port to the legislature last January, this
item-bounty for killing animals-was
set down at $l4 900; whereas it amounts
now, before the first eight months have
passed by, to almost four times his
estimate, and
THE VOLUME OF THE DRAFT
as the calls through this month of Aug
ust show, is not in any sense decreasing.
Already land for several weeks agone)
every dollar in the Treasury has been
raid out, and the territory is now going
in debt every day for the killing of squir.
rels, prairie dogs, wolves. etc, and in.
terast is accumulating upon that indebt-
edness. The enormous demands under
this law upon the public treasury have
awakened suspicion, and prompted care
ful scrutiny of its entire frame work,
provisions, etc, and it is seen that the
pathway to the treasury from the killing
of the animal at his home in the noun.
tain is easily found. is full of temptation
and very dangerous to the pockets of the
people. In the whole body of tbc law,
and in all its parts. there is
A cARELEss LoosssEss
and utter absence of apy safag,ards
against fraud. false SWEARING ner;urv
bribery cheat or imposition. or of nrovis'
ions to punish any of those crimes com.
mtted in the vicious Use of the law
The very officer whose certif;c,te 10 ,,oao
to unbolt the doors of tho troosuru 10
made to be interested ON the side or Tho
applicant and against the Territory IT.
Is not required to make mr. teen n ro.
cord of the transaction or oven =, a..
,way and preserve the affidavit or Tho
applicant. The law shows the facts tb.,
The affidavit must contain and ,r course
1t is attempted. in every ;nsiance 70 hova
the affidavit coneorm to tho ,ou. b,,, an
hat is reouired is the naked statemant
Of the appl,cant and inst what h. sou-
rs to when thew were killed IN what |
COUNTY. in what Territorv and who,ho.
outside of the reservation or marx is IN
be taken as true. The law does nrovi,,e
that he must have two Witnesses who
shall make affidavit that tbev be,ieve
what he saws to be true. The annl,cant
NAV be A person of GOOD charac,er or
the yllest and most unwoytbv and ve,
if he comes with his two believing wit.
nesses, the officers NAV proceed 10
COUNT AND CERTIFY ACCORDINGLY.
The law makes tn. certificate of this dis.
trict officers voucher tn be honored NV
Ihe treasury of the Territory upou pre- |
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